boredomresearch is pleased to announce their solo exhibition Spring Fall at SPUD, Sway from 1-30 May 2026. Spring Fall is a meditation on memory, impermanence, and the incalculability of loss in the natural world. A moving image installation transfigures the final fall of a bark-stripped beech tree in Bolderwood, New Forest. Leaves dance in defiance of gravity, carrying traces of a forest memory – suspended on borrowed time.
This exhibition continues boredomresearch’s practice combining scientific research with their creative speculations to reveal the interconnections between ourselves and our more-than-human world.
The work in Spring Fall inhabits the space between presence and loss, familiar yet irrevocable. Mathematical gestures hint at attempts to measure and model natural systems, highlighting the tension between the desire to quantify and the impossibility of fully grasping ecological loss. Invented lexical entries suggest a more venerative relationship to forces beyond mastery.
This body of work was developed during boredomresearch’s New Forest Artist Residency in October 2025 through exchanges with rangers, ecologists and archivists. These insights informed the exhibition, grounding it in the lived and managed realities of the New Forest landscape.
Spring Fall was produced through the New Forest Artist in Residence Programme, a partnership between SPUD and the New Forest National Park Authority, with support from Arts Council England.